If you were not aware, we are proud to reveal that the vibrant new album by Ermelinda Cuellar entitled Under a Lavender Sky has just been released and is ready to be listened to by any and all discerning musical lovers.

Jazz and Latin music-vocalist Ermelinda Cuellar is known to Houston audiences for her beautiful vocal quality and sophisticated rhythmic feel. Her self released album What a Difference a Day Made ranked at number eight on The Roots Music Report top Latin Jazz Album chart of the year 2022.

Born to Peruvian parents in Texas, Cuellar has been recognized by music critics for her precise intonation, inventive improvisations, and passionate storytelling in both English and Spanish. She works with some of the finest Texan instrumentalists including Andre Hayward, Paul English, and Bob Henshen and in group formats ranging from duo to septet.

Cuellar’s 2022 septet album, What A Difference A Day Made, hit the top 3 spot on the Roots Music Report Latin Jazz Chart and received airplay from many JazzWeek-radio programs. Her material ranges from classic jazz standards, bossa nova favorites, Mexican/Latin/South American songs, originals, and even the occasional pop song.

Ermelinda Cuellar’s brand new album Lavender Sky is an ambitious project that features arrangements of jazz standards and lesser-known Spanish-language songs, all performed by a twelvetet of some of Houston’s finest musicians.

1.Poinciana (Nat Simon, Buddy Bernier) (4:58)
2.Echoes of the Past (Ermelinda Cuellar) (0:34)
3.Morning (Clare Fischer) (3:57)
4.Mueñca Rota (Serafina Quínteras, Joaquina Quínteras) (7:20)
5.Agua de Beber/Water to Drink (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimble) (3:57)
6.Midnight Sun (Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Jonny Mercer) (5:27)
7.Song for My Father (Horace Silver, Ellen May Shashoyan) (7:37)
8.Maria Lando (Cesar Clavo, Chabuca Granda) (4:22)
9.Tu, Mi Delirio (Cesar Portillo de la Luz) (3:52)
10.Sol de Medianoche (Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke, Ermelinda Cuellar, Eric Skidmore) (5:26)

This beautifully refined, cultured and colorfully ambient new recording opens on the impassioned hipsway of Poinciana and the rhythmically sumptuous, short but sweet Echoes of the Past and then we get the spirited Morning, the heartfelt Mueñca Rota and the simply divine Agua de Beber/Water to Drink.

Along next is the low slung, earnestly delivered Midnight Sun and the playfully spiced Song for My Father, and they are in turn backed by the cultured Maria Lando, the unfeigned and inflamed Tu, Mi Delirio, coming to a close on the luxuriant, veritably opulent Sol de Medianoche.

Musicians:
Vocals: Ermelinda Cuellar
Anthony Caceres #2,3,8
Piano Darrell Lavigne
Guitar: Greg Petito
Bass:Anthony Caceres
Drums: Jerre Jackson
Percussion: Sam Dinkins III #2,3,4,7
Percussion: Marlon Simon
Trumpet: Myron Jackson #3,9
Trombone Andre Hayward #3,6,7,9,10
Saxophone: Horace Alexander Young #3,9,10 and flutes on track #5
Accordion Deborah Ungar #4
Cello Steven Barrett Sills #8

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